John Bell wrote:
On 15 Jul 2005, at 03:53, dhbailey wrote:
But they list the Jazz & Big Band Collection for sale (I was terribly
wrong about the price -- it's a whopping $259 dollars more, and that's
a special deal for Finale users!) so they could include a tickler
about how they'll be releasing an update patch of the included GPO
soundset to include an Alto Sax, Tenor Sax and Baritone Sax, when they
are released.
But there's no mention of that, so those of us who are active in the
band world need to make this a $349 upgrade to get what the
orchestra-centric Finale users get for $99. If there's a fairness in
this I fail to see it.
I agree that this is unfair. But if MakeMusic were to wait until all
GPO's sounds were available to Finale users at the same price, some
people would be deprived of sounds that they can now get. Yes, it's an
unfair world we live in, but I see no conspiracy.
John
All MakeMusic has to do is to release Fianle2006 as they plan to,
without the saxes, since they're not ready for release yet, and then
release an update patch, like they do for the occasional interim
bug-release (finale2005a, finale2005b, finale2005c, whatever), which
includes an updated soundset that includes saxes.
And they can pre-announce that without hurting anybody -- they're
preannouncing the Garritan Jazz and Big Band Collection, and even taking
pre-orders for that! If they preannounce the inclusion of saxes in an
interim update to be released at the same time the Jazz and Big Band
Collection is released, they won't lose band composers/arrangers who
won't see anything else of major importance in this 2006 upgrade.
--
David H. Bailey
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